Kaye Husbands Fealing

Kaye Husbands Fealing is an American economist and professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy. She is a former Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. She previously taught for 20 years at Williams College, served in several staff positions with the National Science Foundation,

Early life and education

Husbands Fealing immigrated to the US from Barbados at the age of eight, and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Her father was a lecturer of economics at Montclair State College. She earned a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Career Husbands Fealing taught at Williams College from 1989 through 2009, Husbands Fealing is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was awarded the 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and the 2017 Trailblazer Award from the National Medical Association Council on Concerns of Women Physicians.

At the National Science Foundation, she developed and was the first program director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program and co-chaired the Science of Science Policy Interagency Task Group. She was also a program director for the NSF economics program.

Selected research publications

Campbell, John Y., Kaye Husbands Fealing (eds.). Financing Institutions of Higher Education. University of Chicago Press, 2026. Fealing, Kaye Husbands, Yufeng Lai, and Samuel L. Myers Jr. "Pathways vs. pipelines to broadening participation in the STEM workforce." Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 21, no. 4 (2015). Krosnick, Jon A., Stanley Presser, Kaye Husbands Fealing, Steven Ruggles, and David Vannette. "The future of survey research: Challenges and opportunities." The National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Subcommittee on Advancing SBE Survey Research (2015): 1–15. Smith-Doerr, Laurel, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Sharla Alegria, Kaye Husbands Fealing, and Debra Fitzpatrick. "Gender pay gaps in US federal science agencies: An organizational approach." American Journal of Sociology 125, no. 2 (2019): 534–576. Gelan, Abera, Kaye Husbands Fealing, and James Peoples. "Inward foreign direct investment and racial employment patterns in US manufacturing." American Economic Review 97, no. 2 (2007): 378–382.

Awards 2017: Trailblazer Award from the National Medical Association Council on Concerns of Women Physicians 2017: Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2019: Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) 2021: Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2023: Carolyn Shaw Bell Award